Meridian is an open-source AI work journal that runs entirely on your device. It writes your work up in plain English as the day goes, so by the end of the day you have a summary of everything you did. Meridian automatically drafts your updates for your project management tools like Jira, ready to post once you approve them. Do the work. Let the remembering take care of itself. No cloud, no account. MIT-licensed, free.
Three months ago, I quit my job to build Meridian. My co-founder and I kept running into the same problem many developers face: we would ask claude to write an update, then spend ten minutes reconstructing the context it had missed. It knew what we told it, but not the four unexpected problems we had solved along the way.
That unplanned work is real, and bigger than most people think. I posted about it on Reddit: "We software developers massively underestimate how much unplanned work we do every single sprint" and it went viral, which told us we weren't the only ones feeling this.
Meridian does the remembering for us. It runs quietly in the background, groups the day into a timeline, matches the work to open Jira and GitHub tickets, and drafts the update - so by the end of the day there's a work log, a standup note, and a daily summary ready to paste, not write.
A few things I care about, as a developer myself: - We care deeply about privacy - nothing leaves your device until you hit approve. - Open source - you can audit exactly what it's doing. - Free for individual developers. No seat, no credit card. - Bring your own AI - runs on the Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex CLI you already have, or Groq for free if you don't.
I'm excited to give it a try! But I'm running into this issue where it's not recognizing Claude Code on my computer – I've double checked all the permissions it needed and restarted my computer, unsure if it would potentially be a setting on the Claude end or something. Would appreciate any advice, thanks!
I love this idea but I ran into the same issue I have run into with other similar tools. They consume way too much memory. Do you think it works well only with computers with a lot of RAM.
@adityaharish2002 the AIdrafting keeps timing out after running for 1-2 minutes.
love the concept. will keep trying!
i've been doing such notes manually so definitely will give Meridian a try!
Congrats on the launch! Capturing unplanned work and context switching is such a pain point when drafting end-of-day updates or standup notes. Love the local-first, BYO-AI approach. Looking forward to testing it out! 🚀
Two more questions:
This seems like it could replace obsidian for creating a 2nd brain that Claude leverages.
Does it integrate/pull context from granola transcripts?
Can it post a weekly bullet point list of work a user completed? I spend about an hour creating a bullet point list of what I completed the previous week.
Great launch Akarsh.. much needed.. with so many activities, there is no tab on the product time spent.. this has enterprise usage.. good wishes for your success..
is it only built for the devs?
who notices the PMs unspoken work 😅🥲
ps- im a PM myself...trying to log my work every week and transfer that into ai platform to articulate it better for presentation on weekly reviews.
can we do anything with Meridian on that part?
nobody is going to believe that I actually got something done while just being at my macbook all day long. :)
I was always reluctant to post, but wanted to do Day 1, Day 2 kind of post for #buildinpublic, With Meridian, finally I can do it , glad to discover the product.
I have been using the product for more than 2 months now and I am one of the beta users, I love the product and how it's shaping up, great going!
This is a fascinating product, congratulations! If a lot of my work happens on a remote VM that I SSH into from a local computer, does this support that, or plans to support that?
You quit your job three months ago to build this, and it's MIT-licensed and free for individual developers. That's a lot to give away on day one. Congrats.
Three months ago you quit your job to build this. It's MIT-licensed and free for individual developers, a lot to give away on day one. Congrats on shipping it.
Neat use case - curious who the optimal end users are - devs running into these issues? Or could it even be less capable no code folks who are trying to build with a Claude / whatever other bug triage tools?
About Meridian on Product Hunt
“Don't let your work go unnoticed. Get promoted!”
Meridian launched on Product Hunt on August 17th, 2026 and earned 435 upvotes and 80 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Meridian is an open-source AI work journal that runs entirely on your device. It writes your work up in plain English as the day goes, so by the end of the day you have a summary of everything you did. Meridian automatically drafts your updates for your project management tools like Jira, ready to post once you approve them. Do the work. Let the remembering take care of itself. No cloud, no account. MIT-licensed, free.
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Rohan Chaubey
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Three months ago, I quit my job to build Meridian. My co-founder and I kept running into the same problem many developers face: we would ask claude to write an update, then spend ten minutes reconstructing the context it had missed. It knew what we told it, but not the four unexpected problems we had solved along the way.
That unplanned work is real, and bigger than most people think. I posted about it on Reddit: "We software developers massively underestimate how much unplanned work we do every single sprint" and it went viral, which told us we weren't the only ones feeling this.
Meridian does the remembering for us. It runs quietly in the background, groups the day into a timeline, matches the work to open Jira and GitHub tickets, and drafts the update - so by the end of the day there's a work log, a standup note, and a daily summary ready to paste, not write.
A few things I care about, as a developer myself:
- We care deeply about privacy - nothing leaves your device until you hit approve.
- Open source - you can audit exactly what it's doing.
- Free for individual developers. No seat, no credit card.
- Bring your own AI - runs on the Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex CLI you already have, or Groq for free if you don't.
Try it
Free download — Meridian for macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 14+) or Meridian for Windows (Win 10/11, 64-bit). Everything else is at meridiona.com, and if you like what we're building, star us on GitHub.